 | 1806 - 408 lehte
...more Thau e'er a king did, when he made a lord. DESCRIPTION of an ancient CA/IHEDRAL. (CONCRETE.) • -'Tis dreadful ! How rev'rend is .the face of this...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof! By its own weight made stedfast, and immoveable. Looking tranquillity, it... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 382 lehte
...Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen No, all is hush'd, and still as death — 'tis dreadful ! How rev'rend is the face of this tall...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! —... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 372 lehte
...behold the tomb of Anselmo), an image the most poetical of any in the English language : " How rcv'rend is the face of this tall pile, " Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, " To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, " By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, " Looking tranquillity!... | |
 | William Congreve - 1808 - 412 lehte
...hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen No, all is hush'd, and still as death — 'tis dreadfijl ! How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To boar aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity... | |
 | 1809 - 672 lehte
...occasioned much investigation, I shall avail myself of the poet's words, and exclaim : How reverend is the face of this tall pile» Whose ancient pillars...pond'rous roof. By its own weight made stedfast and immovable* Looking tranquillity! Co NO в EVE. Brilton't Architectural Anliquitie *•* H'e add an... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 lehte
...listen— LEONORA. Mark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its uwn weight made stedfast and imniovcable, Looking tram|iiillity !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 lehte
...listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. "Tis dreadful ' How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its areh'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 lehte
...LEONORA. Hark ! ALMKRIA. No, all is hush'd and nil! as death. ' I , . dreadful ! How reverend is the fuce of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 lehte
...listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— Tis dreadful I How reverend n the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads. To bi-ar aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof. By its own weight mude stedfaat and immoveable, Looking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 lehte
...— LEONORA. Hark ! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
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Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. 
